Tag
behavioral_economics
10 findings
Behaviour & psychologyAction-Plan Prompts for Behavioral Search BarriersEncouraging job seekers to complete a detailed search action plan closed the gap between application intentions and actual applications, expanded the diversity of job search channels utilized, and significantly increased employment outcomes.RCTLabour & employmentEx-Ante Regime Notification EffectExit rates from unemployment began diverging significantly between treatment and control groups almost immediately upon receipt of the notification letter in week 2, well before mandatory 18-week full-time programs commenced.RCTEducationGift Exchange and Hawthorne CounterfactualsNo significant differences in teacher absence or teaching activity were found between treatment and control groups in Year 1 or Year 2; moreover, contract teacher interventions yielded cumulative two-year gains twice as large as one-year gains, ruling out general novelty decay.RCTLabour & employmentJob Security Stress-Reduction ResponseStandardized training test scores strongly predict competitive hiring, with a 1 standard deviation score increase yielding a 9.7 percentage point higher hiring likelihood (R² = 0.357). High probabilistic job guarantees caused candidates to perform significantly better on training assessment tests due to reduced job-uncertainty stress.RCTEducationNarrow Margin for Error HypothesisAmong students granted emergency assistance, 29% required aid for transportation (e.g., car repairs), 23% for housing, and 33% for utilities, demonstrating that minor non-academic financial shocks dominate student crises.Expert TheoryMethods & evidenceObjective Behavioral Metric via Voucher RedemptionTreatment group students demonstrated a 28% redemption rate compared to 18% in the control group, representing a 55% relative increase in condom demand (p = 0.07).RCTFirms & operationsOwner Time Constraints and Procrastination in Process AdoptionFirm directors worked an average of 68 hours per week; owner time scarcity and procrastination rose from causing 3.7% of practice nonadoption at baseline to 14.0% after 9 months as an implementation backlog accumulated.RCTLabour & employmentTime-Inconsistent Search Preferences12% of job-seekers exhibited incentivized present bias at baseline. Workshop treatment effects on permanent employment were significantly higher for present-biased individuals who failed to anticipate their time-inconsistency (p < 0.05).RCTLabour & employmentPresent Bias and Non-Anticipated Revision in Search BehaviorUnanticipated present bias significantly moderates policy impacts; naive present-biased individuals who do not anticipate their revision behavior gain a **6.8 percentage point increase in permanent employment** from the application workshop (p < 0.01), whereas non-present-biased individuals exhibit no significant impact.RCTEconomics (general)Psychological Poverty TrapAlleviating financial strain via early wage payments increased production by 0.27 plates per hour (a 7 percent increase) and high attentiveness by 7.7 percentage points (a 17.1 percent increase), establishing that cognitive distraction from financial distress actively suppresses labor efficiency.Expert Theory